From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings
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Setting up a dimensioning text style - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Annotation Scaling in Drawings
Setting up a dimensioning text style
- [Instructor] We're staying in the 06 annotative dimensions drawing as usual. And what we're going to look at now is making a dimension style. A non annotative dimension style I hasten to add. Now the way that we can check this is we've already got some existing non annotative dimensions in the drawing. So they must be using a dimension style. So the quick way to check this is to select one of the dimensions, quick right click and on the shortcut menu select properties and you'll notice there in the miscellaneous part of my oversize properties pallet that's gone off the screen again, because of my resolution, that we're using the dim style, Lynda one and it's annotative no. So that dim style is non annotative obviously. So I'm going to close the properties pallet. Hit escape to deselect. Now I can go to my dimension style in two ways, from the home tab in the annotation fly out here, click on the little arrow and I can see there's dimension style there. And you can see that at the…
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